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Thomas Harrison Hair (23 December 1808 – 11 August 1875) was a British artist most famous for depictions of industrial scenes in north-eastern England in the first half of the nineteenth century. ==Life== T.H. Hair (as he signed his work) was born in Newcastle upon Tyne or the nearby township of Newburn on 23 December 1808, the son of John Hair, a lamp-black maker and tanner from Scotswood, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Hannah Harrison. He was baptised at All Saints church, Newcastle on 22 January 1809. Little is known of his early life but he probably trained in the workshops of Mark Lambert (1781–1855), a Tyneside engraver and lithographer. Lambert had been assistant to Thomas Bewick (1753–1828), a famous wood engraver from Cherryburn, Northumberland. Hair relocated to London in the late 1830s, and produced a body of work there, much of it referring to North East England. Three of his paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts between 1841 and 1849, including one of Tynedale Fell, Cumberland, and another of Bothwell Castle, near Glasgow, suggesting he travelled more widely across northern Britain than just the coal-mining communities of Durham and Northumberland with which he was later primarily associated. In 1851 he was living and working at Taunton, Somerset. But he had returned to live and work in North East England by the time of the 1861 census, which records him as an unmarried "Landscape Painter &c", boarding at a Gloucester Street house in Newcastle's Elswick district. He died on 11 August 1875 (not 1882 as stated by many biographies).〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Harrison Hair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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